Romeo and Juliet (Quarto 1, 1597)
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of Romeo and Iuliet.
290and yet I knowe not who are written here: I must to
¶the learned to learne of them, that's as much to say, as
¶with his needle, the Painter with his nets, and the Fisher
¶
Enter Benuolio and Romeo.
¶Ben: Tut man one fire burnes out anothers burning,
295Turne backward, and be holp with backward turning,
¶Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
¶And the ranke poyson of the old will die.
¶Romeo: Your Planton leafe is excellent for that.
300Ben: For what?
¶Ben: Why Romeo art thou mad?
¶Rom: Not mad, but bound more than a mad man is.
¶Shut vp in prison, kept without my foode,
305Whipt and tormented, and Godden good fellow.
¶Ser: Perhaps you haue learned it without booke:
¶but I pray can you read any thing you see?
310Rom: I if I know the letters and the language.
¶Rom: Stay fellow I can read.
¶
He reads the Letter.
¶SEigneur Martino and his wife and daughters, Countie
¶Vtruuio, Seigneur Placentio, and his louelie Neeces,
316.1Mercutio and his brother Valentine, mine vncle Capu-
¶let his wife and daughters, my faire Neece Rosaline and
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Liuia